Bridging the Great Divide Quotes

“The Cartesian reliance on subjectivity as foundational can be seen in almost all of the great modern thinkers. Kant affects a Copernican revolution in epistemology and metaphysics, orienting reality to mind rather than mind to reality; and the starting point for his ethics is not behavior, virtue, or nature, but the categorical imperative discernible in the very structure of the will.4 Similarly, Hegel engages in a careful phenomenology of mind and, at the conclusion of his mammoth philosophical project, apotheosizes human consciousness. This modern turn to subjectivity is especially evident in many of the leading Christian theologians”
― Robert Barron, Bridging the Great Divide: Musings of a Post-Liberal, Post-Conservative Evangelical Catholic

“am persuaded that theology and spirituality are fundamentally one. The more we know about God, the more our lives change. In these articles and sermons, I try to show some practical implications of Christian doctrine. In section five, “The Way of Nonviolence,” I have brought together articles that center around the theme of”
― Robert Barron, Bridging the Great Divide: Musings of a Post-Liberal, Post-Conservative Evangelical Catholic

“The most oft-cited line of Newman’s An Essay on the Development of Doctrine is situated in this context: “In a higher world it may be otherwise; but here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” So indeed, Pope John’s Newman-like image of the “flourishing garden of life” effectively holds off a stuffy traditionalism.”
― Robert Barron, Bridging the Great Divide: Musings of a Post-Liberal, Post-Conservative Evangelical Catholic